{"id":13083,"date":"2015-10-06T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13083"},"modified":"2015-10-06T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:30:46","slug":"bushfires-rage-in-australia-as-godzilla-el-nino-takes-affect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13083","title":{"rendered":"Bushfires rage in Australia as \u2018Godzilla El Nino\u2019 takes affect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bushfires rage in Australia as \u2018Godzilla El Nino\u2019 takes affect\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A charred car stands destroyed after a bushfire moved through the area near One Tree Hill in the Adelaide Hills on January 5, 2015. \u00a9 AFP<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Over 100 bushfires are blazing in the state of Victoria, Australia, with over 200 homes at risk. Unusually high temperatures and strong winds have fueled the fires, which are threatening areas about 80 kilometers northwest of Melbourne.<\/div>\n
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Firefighters are struggling to put out the blazes, with changing wind directions making their task even more difficult. Aerial water bombers have also been called in to provide assistance, as gusts of wind have reached over 100 kilometers an hour.<\/p>\n

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Smoke blowing\u00a0over @<\/span>edgarsmission<\/span><\/a>#<\/span>Lancefield<\/span><\/a>#<\/span>VicFires<\/span><\/a>@<\/span>CFA_Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Country Fire Authority (CFA) says that over 100 fires are raging north of Melbourne, while local politicians have been urging locals to take precautions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 15\/16 fire season is here now. It is absolutely on us and we need to understand that this is going to be a long, hot, dry, and dangerous summer and people need to be very clear and get your fire plan in order,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews told ABC News.<\/p>\n

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Bushfires rage in Australia as \u2018Godzilla El Nino\u2019 takes affect\u00a0 A charred car stands destroyed after a bushfire moved through the area near One Tree Hill in the Adelaide Hills on January 5, 2015. \u00a9 AFP Over 100 bushfires are blazing in the state of Victoria, Australia, with over 200 homes at risk. Unusually high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,2417,252,288,9652,9653,8114,1950],"class_list":["post-13083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-bushfires","tag-el-nino","tag-extreme-weather","tag-high-temperatures","tag-melbourne","tag-rt-news","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13084,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083\/revisions\/13084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}